The document discusses responsive web design which involves designing websites that automatically adapt their layout to different screen sizes and devices. It covers scoping a responsive design by considering the context of use and prioritizing important content. Guidelines are provided for wireframing grid structures and layouts for different screen widths as well as best practices for text, buttons, forms and other elements on responsive sites.
2. What is Responsive Web Design?
• Responsive websites respond to their
environment.
• These web sites provide optimal
experience for their users regardless of
access devices.
4. Context of Use
Context is about the environment and conditions of
usage, including distractions, multitasking, motion, lighting
conditions and poor connectivity
5. Mobile first
• To focus on only the most important data and
actions in your web application. You have to
prioritize.
• Consider capabilities offered to developers on
Apple’s iPhone or Google’s Android platforms:
– precise location information from GPS;
– user orientation from a digital compass;
– multi-touch input from one or more
simultaneous gestures;
– device positioning from an accelerometer; and
many more.
7. Identify Device-specific Use Cases
• Think about what visitors want most from
your mobile website and consider how to
make it easy for them to access.
26. Text
• Don’t make users double tap or
pinch your content.
Instead, increase the font size to
at least 16px.
• You can also use a line height of
1.5 to allow for breathing room
between text on content-rich
pages.
27. Buttons
• Our fingers are much clumsier than a cursor, so bumping
up the spacing between different touch targets will
improve user accuracy. And, make those touch targets
big!
• Our fingertips typically require upwards of 44px to
comfortably fit within a touch target so design for that.